The white gunman accused of a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket planned to keep killing if he had escaped the scene, the police commissioner said.
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The white gunman accused of a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket planned to keep killing if he had escaped the scene, the police commissioner said.
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Read More »March 14, 2022 Comments Off on Lawsuit: Md. park police exchanged racist, extremist text messages
A Black police officer with the Maryland-National Capital Park Police was subjected to racist and abusive messages sent in a group text with fellow officers, some of whom made references to a “race war” and far-right extremist groups, a new ...
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Read More »June 1, 2021 Comments Off on Virginia Military Institute must address institutional racism and sexism, report finds
The Virginia Military Institute has tolerated and failed to address institutional racism and sexism and must be held accountable for making changes, according to a state-sanctioned report released Tuesday.
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Read More »November 12, 2020 Comments Off on Ex-employees sue casino, allege hostile environment, retaliation
Maryland Live! gave short shrift to a casino employee’s claims of being barraged by a loyal customer’s misogynistic and racist slurs and then fired her — and her co-worker husband – after she threatened to go to the personnel department ...
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Read More »June 29, 2020 Comments Off on Md. high court suspends lawyers for bigoted emails
Two Maryland lawyers who exchanged racist, misogynistic and homophobic emails for about seven years while working at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have been indefinitely suspended from the practice of law by the state’s top court. A unanimous Court ...
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Read More »April 21, 2020 Comments Off on 4th Circuit: ‘Reasonable’ steps block hostile environment claim
A company cannot be held responsible for racist and sexist comments by co-workers so long as it takes steps “reasonably calculated” to stop the hateful banter, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in rejecting a black woman’s effort to hold ...
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Read More »March 8, 2018 Comments Off on There are tides
A columnist must write concisely. Concision forced me to omit much from my previous column, in which I discussed the mechanics of white privilege. I got to tell readers privilege can be rolled along from one generation to another, as ...
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Read More »November 18, 2015 Comments Off on Report: Race most significant in Baltimore’s lending disparities
A recent report by a Washington, D.C., advocacy group has confirmed what many organizations that work with low-income families in the city say they’ve already suspected: getting a mortgage in Baltimore isn’t necessarily about one’s credit score, it’s about race. ...
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Read More »December 12, 2014 Comments Off on Holder: U.S. must bridge trust gap between police, residents
The U.S. must work to narrow the gap between law enforcement and some black communities as the nation grapples with fatal incidents involving police officers and unarmed victims, said U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
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Read More »December 9, 2014 Comments Off on Mom files lawsuit in Md. man’s shooting death
The mother of an unarmed man fatally shot in Maryland last year is suing the Air Force sergeant who killed her son in a racially charged case that set off rallies demanding justice.
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